Progressive Podcaster Labels Erika Kirk A ‘Grifter’ | EUROtoday

Jennifer Welch, one half of the progressive podcast duo behind “I’ve Had It,” ripped into Erika Kirk, calling her a “grifter” and calling the late Charlie Kirk “racist and a homophobe.”

“This woman should be kicked to the curb,” Welch stated about Erika Kirk in a video uploaded Sunday to the “I’ve Had It” YouTube web page. “She is an absolute grifter. Just like Donald Trump and just like her unrepentant racist homophobic husband was.”

In the video, Welch shared a clip of Erika Kirk being interviewed Wednesday by The New York Times, the place she stated she doesn’t need New York City ladies to depend on the federal government and postpone marriage and having a household, including that she finds it “ironic” that a big share of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s voters had been ladies.

Welch first known as out Erika Kirk for firming down her search for the Wednesday interview, buying and selling in her normal heavy make-up search for extra delicate make-up and a high-neck gray gown. Then Welch known as out Erika Kirk for “weaponizing” her gender when Erika Kirk is a “full-time working mother” and CEO of an organization.

“You are an opportunistic grifter who weaponizes your gender to demean women, and you are a walking, talking, breathing example as to why nobody, number one, wants to be a Christian, and number two, wants to be a female hypocrite such as yourself,” Welch stated.

Welch continued: “Your deceased husband was an unrepentant racist and a homophobe, and women are a lot more empathic than you are, Erika.”

Welch’s co-host, Angie Sullivan, added that “maybe there’s more to life than identifying yourself as someone’s wife or someone’s mother.”

After Charlie Kirk, founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, a conservative group geared toward making faculty college students conservative, was murdered in September, his spouse took over the group and has since been on a media tour, speaking about her late husband. During Erika Kirk’s interview with The New York Times, she stated she was nonetheless a supporter of the Second Amendment, despite the fact that Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, and stated the difficulty is a “human problem.”

During his life, Charlie Kirk spouted many racist, sexist and homophobic views, together with that girls ought to go to varsity to discover a husband and that too many ladies are ready till their 30s to have youngsters. Critics have identified the hypocrisy of Charlie and Erika Kirk, contemplating Erika Kirk earned a level and based a nonprofit earlier than marrying Charlie and having youngsters in her 30s.